This audiobook almost entirely skips the book's intro and it seems almost unnecessary to mention it later on.

In the unabridged book Goldman begins by giving a wandering backstory about his introduction to the S. Part of what is so enjoyable in reading the book is how the author/adapter intersperses his comments about the original text. The story behind the book is that it is an adaptation of the 'S. So much of the story has been cut that it lacks the feel of the original book. Click Here to Try Speechify.I didn't realize when I bought it that this version was abridged. Since I saw the movie first, every line sounds in my mind like the actors who played the various parts. While that is happening, there is giants, cliffs of insanity, miracles that don’t quite work, riddles, and amazing sword fights. She gets kidnapped, kidnapped again, finds her true love, losses him, gets forced into a marriage that doesn’t really happen, and then rescued. She is then selected to be Prince Humperdink’s future bride, but she is unhappy. He gets lost at sea, and Buttercup mourns for him. The two grow up together and fall in love, but Wesley goes off to make his fortune so that they can marry. The Princess Bride is about a girl named Buttercup and a farm boy named Wesley. So, now that you have the surface story, I’ll talk about the fairytale. I enjoyed the additions to the fairytale, but just like Goldman’s fiction father, I would leave out the boring parts of the modern-day world. Then, it has Goldman’s fictional path to writing an abridged version of the book and making the movie. Goldman talks about hearing the story as a child but also his discovery that his father left huge parts out. The book adds much more to both stories, but especially to the fictionalized William Goldman storyline. The movie does keep this story within a story very clean, focusing more on the fairytale with just a tad of the child Goldman. Are you confused yet? You will be when reading the novel. In the novel, the whole book is not read to him, but only the good parts. Morgenstern is from some renaissance era in the fictional country of Florin. The idea in the novel and movie is that the historical Princess Bride by S. The novel version also has this dual storyline, but a father reading to his son, a fictionalized version of the actual author, William Goldman. In the movie, a grandfather reads The Princess Bride by S. Both the book and the movie have heavily influenced my humorous fantasy fiction writing. That being said, the book was still pretty good, but the movie is one of my all-time favorites.

The Princess Bride is perhaps the only book in which I think the movie was better.

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